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What if saving the ocean isn’t just about data, but about who’s at the table, what stories we uplift, and how we learn to listen?
Twenty years after the murder of her partner near Indigenous U’wa territory in Colombia, Abby Reyes, a lawyer, environmental organizer and Director of Community Resilience Projects at University of California, Irvine, discusses land rights advocacy, entrenched oil interests, resistance and resilience, and what she hopes her new memoir “Truth Demands” offers climate activists.
“Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice” charts Reyes’ journey as she navigates the waters of loss, purpose, and impermanence while fighting for truth and accountability from big oil. In this excerpt, Reyes reflects on the resistance to multinational oil interests in U’wa territory.
Addressing our urgent ecological crises requires rethinking the human relationship with the natural world and developing legal protections for nature.
In his book “The Well-Connected Animal,” evolutionary biologist Lee Alan Dugatkin explores the social webs that permeate life in animal societies around the world. In this excerpt from the book, he explores how Hurricane Maria's devastation affected the macaques of Cayo Santiago.
In this episode, we hitch a ride with comedian, writer, futurist, technologist, and storyteller Baratunde Thurston. At this perilous existential threshold that will determine the fate of the human experiment, he knows that the story of the battle is equally the battle of the story.
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Erik Ohlsen, author of the award-winning book, "Regenerative Landscaper," talks about his activism, and how a healing crisis redirected his life and put him on the path to become a permaculture designer and entrepreneur. He also shares his approach to landscape design and how humans can become an ecological keystone species and a positive force on the land.
Two decades post-publication of "Intelligence in Nature," Jeremy Narby reflects on the legacy of his book and the reconciliation of Indigenous knowledge and Western science.
Two Indigenous language champions, Jeannette Armstrong and Rowen White, reflect on the words, stories, songs and ideas that influence our conception of nature, and our place within it.
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